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Records About Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II

Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

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Release Date
26 February 2015
Modified Date
13 March 2015
Publishers
National Archives and Records Administration
Keywords
central-utah-relocation-center, civil-rights-division, colorado-river-relocation-center, department-of-interior, department-of-justice, gila-river-relocation-center, granada-relocation-center, heart-mountain-relocation-center, japanese-americans, jerome-relocation-center, manzanar-relocation-center, minidoka-relocation-center, nara, national-archives, office-for-emergency-management, personal-names, relocation-of-japanese-americans, rohwer-relocation-center, topaz, tule-lake-relocation-center, united-states, war-relocation-authority, world-war-ii
Identifier
records-about-japanese-americans-relocated-during-world-war-ii
Landing Page
http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/records-about-japanese-americans-relocated-during-world-war-ii
Maintainers
Bill Mayer opengov@nara.gov
Theme
aapi0916

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Description

This series contains personal descriptive data about Japanese Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II in the states of California (Tule Lake and Manzanar Centers), Idaho (Minidoka Center), Utah (Central Utah Center), Colorado (Granada Center), Arizona (Colorado River and Gila River Centers), Wyoming (Heart Mountain Center), and Arkansas (Rohwer and Jerome Centers). Each record represents an individual and includes the name; relocation project and assembly center to which assigned; previous address; birthplace of parents; occupation of father; education; foreign residence; indication of military service, public assistance, pensions, and physical defects; sex and marital status; race of evacuee and spouse; year of birth; age; birthplace; indication of the holding of an alien registration number and/or Social Security number, and whether the evacuee attended Japanese language school; highest grade completed; language proficiency; occupations; and religion.

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This dataset has been created by US Government which means it is required to be in the public domain. However US copyright law only allows open access by US citizens, we have assumed the data is equivalently licensed as CC0 for the rest of the world as this is in the spirit of the US Government’s Open Data policy.

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